skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India is a huge market and there's a lot of people in India.

Isn't there a `made in India` alternative trying to get into that ?

> Penetration of Signal in real world is way too different from what it "feels" here on HN.

No, it's not that clear cut.

My only tech friend in my peer group is the one reluctantly moving to Signal while his SO and 20 of his SO's friends are moving to Signal. (sidenote: I asked about Telegram and the consensus seems to be "yeah but it's the united arab eminates, right ? no.")
yes, but Waymo uses high resolution mapping for that particular city. That does not scale.
I think the parent is saying that throughput isn’t the only “performance” metric.

Cost/thermals/power are also performance metrics.

It should be noted, however, that the article does not claim that Apple left throughout performance on the table, only that Apple chose -not- to use a HUB this time which could potentially oversaturate their thunderbolt controllers. This has the benefit of being significantly more stable.
I heard the vaccine only lasts 5-6 months.
I probably agree with this, at least to some extent, but if the question is what is the better form of society, I'm not sure how relevant it is.

You can have societies that are very community minded and govern them in a free way and with a democracy. You can try to govern very individualistic societies with an autocracy.

There's probably an optimum level of accepted dissent in a society, depending on what it wants to achieve, and I tend to think that social democracies come the closest to achieving it, and certainly much closer than most autocracies.
Several of the big incumbent ISPs in most European countries are not as eager to peer because they also have a B2B side of their business that sells you the bandwidth you would otherwise need.

But for most smaller end-user networks it's great to be able to peer with Netflix, GCP/Youtube, AWS, Azure easily in the exchanges, because that's where the majority of their user traffic comes from.
Are donations bringing in more money than Matrix's contract with gov. agencies and other clients ?
This brought me so much joy.

I love the effort that went in to an amazing UX, particularly the super-intelligent defaults (name from /etc/passwd, etc.)

How many apps today put so much thought into using the resources available to them? This is the mark of a developer who seriously cares about his work and his users.
Email is the only practical hope to having a federated communication over internet. Unfortunately gmail and outlook has disproportionate share of email communication which is a threat to the open standards. It is possible to built a federated communication but it has to be built from scratch which is very hard.
I would suggest you not to choose Blazor. It's not that Blazor is bad or that I have something against, but you don't want to limit yourself when it comes to finding a Blazor developer. You will hardly find a frontend developer who is focusing on Blazor.
Today are React, Angular, Vue or similar frameworks the best way to go, especially for a startup where you need flexibility. Keep using .NET for a backend, provide a nice API and implement frontend using already mentioned frameworks.
So we went from a single-factor solution (magstripe) that was only clonable hands-on, to two-factor (chip&pin) and even multi-factor (mobile payments) solutions that were near-impossible to clone even with significant hands-on time and e2e cryptographically verifiable and now to...a single factor that can be cloned by line of sight (or even remotely) and has no cryptographic verification...

And don't try tell me that the facial recognition can't be fooled. Every biometric ID system I know of was broken eventually and keep in mind that these systems might sometimes be unattended or deployed by untrustworthy people so the attack surface is even greater.

Can't wait until we go back to "tell the cashier your name and they phone the bank at the end of the day"......
MasterCard to increase fees for UK purchases from EU
Looking for Partners. SaaS Chat-center business. 20% profit
Looking for Solution Partners in APAC region for promoting chat-center (Saas and on-premise) with different messengers and integrations like WhatsApp Business API, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram and etc.
20% profit the clients' price.
Normally, when the deadline is extended, this is correctly reported on the Companies House website.

One has to apply for deadline extension before the deadline. Between 25 March 2020 and 25 June 2020, every application that mentions COVID-19 as a reason was accepted. Additionally, all companies with accounts due date between 26 March 2020 and 29 September 2020 automatically got an extension under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.

There are also all kinds of temporary changes to deadlines, the one that applies here is 1.4 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-companies-etc... under which is exactly the 29 October 2020 listed on Companies House website.
Not sure how popular it is elsewhere, but here where I live, Wolt is the most popular food delivery service by a large margin. And their service is great. For us it is like Spotify or Netflix, but for food.

The rest of the EU and world probably deserve and would appreciate a service like that.
Responding to someone saying bats can go extinct. They didn’t specifically mention a type of bats, so it seems it’s out of hatred for bats in general.
It’s all political pandering. When a government implements a new tax to pay for schools, they’re just offsetting other tax revenue they would have used had they not implemented the new tax.

I consider anything paid to government (or infrastructure like tolls) to be going into the same pot, and any claims that it will be used for specific purposes to be bullshit.
> We need far less children

Humm.. countries need far less children but need far more immigrants?
If you fly a few times a year, the flight crew only spend 1-2 orders of magnitude more than you on the plane. That's not enough to move a risk from "unacceptably high" to "national lottery" levels.
The worst thing about Signal is that it was probably some some sort of CIA/NSA initiative.

It could be a simple honeypot, or just a way to make users feel like they are not listened to: once the app is created, you have to insert some very subtle coding error, like heartbleed (a missing semicolon), if you can manage to hijack the computer of one of the signal team. I doubt that a benevolent team of developers can match the expertise of the NSA.

Of course, most users don't really have to care about such security flaws since they're very advanced issues, and most users care about their privacy.

Meanwhile, I honestly would like to voluntarily submit my interests so I can choose what ads I would like to see. Advertisers should do that.
It does help to make sure that the only people who represent your business face to face are actually happy about it.
> Even if the odds are low, it's still an unnecessary additional risk of dying. You can't avoid all risks in live but not flying a 737-MAX shouldn't be too hard.

It has the additional benefit of not supporting an obnoxious corporate culture....
Contracts with govs involve the for-profit New Vector Ltd. / Element and not the not-for-profit Matrix.org Foundation.
Seems unlikely considering everything that's happening in HK.
Parent means the size of the key data present in the index, I suspect. In a B-tree every byte of every key value is present.
Also the fab for a 20year old process is probably easier/cheaper/faster to re-build in case the enemy destroys it, than the fab for 5nm process you've been building for 4 years.

Nevermind the nation probably has more than 1 of such old fabs, so it can't be technologically decapitated by destroying a single precious 5nm fab it has.
> Nevermind the people who you infect and kill, you can’t be blamed for that, right?

This is a new standard. Even though the flu is very dangerous in small children, adults who mix with adults in work settings while infected with the flu have never been held to this standard. And since everyone might carry something that might be dangerous to someone under the right circumstances, I never wanted to go down the road of locking people up just in case someone somewhere may possibly be spared an infection.

Keep in mind that solitary confinement is an additional punishment for most inmates in most prisons in the world. Yet, that has been inflicted on people without so much of a second's thought to what the costs are.

So, by your standard, nevermind the kid who kills himself because he has now been put in solitary due to forces completely out of his control. Or, the grandmother who lives in another country who may be spared a SARS-Cov2 infection, but lost most of her mental faculties due to lack of contact with other human beings.

Do you think the only bad thing that can happen to someone is a SARS-Cov2 infection?

If not, they one must take into account how much of one bad thing one is willing to tolerate in return for a given reduction in some other bad thing. Because the probability of some bad thing happening to someone is 100%.
Except Boeing also aggressively pitched that pilots didn't need to be extensively re-trained for the 737
The masks will stop as soon as people stop wearing the masks, I expect that may need to happen before politician’s “cover my ass” mandates are abandoned.
I tend to disagree heavily with that. Social online games are fostering a toxic "win it or die" mentality that is making children anti-social physically and introvert. Bullying practices just got to the next level with games such as Fortnite, Free Fire, etc.

And the industry profits with that by applying psychological gimmicks in their games, the same ones applied by Vegas' casinos. The problem here is that they are applied on children that are unable to fully fathom the mid-long term consequences of their decisions and that keeps them playing and forgetting the external world. Their mental health is better until the day their parents take away their devices and send them to play outside. Suicide rates doubled over the years. Antidepressants use doubled over the years.

Social media by itself is not the problem. How big techs use them to profit (The Social Dilemma) is the problem.
>Summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere fell by an average of 0.4 °C (0.72 °F) in the year following the eruption.

Hmm... This could be useful for fighting climate change! What if we artificially triggered an eruption in the Yellowstone caldera? Maybe a few hydrogen bombs at the right locations could weaken the crust enough to trigger a huge eruption, which would lower global temperatures for a few years.
Tesla goal is to get battery replacement cost down to 4-7k.

I think right now it’s 13k? So maybe a tad more than a BMW engine but falling fast.
Non-partisan doesn't mean it doesn't have a viewpoint, it means it isn't a mouthpiece for a political party. That description basically says they're a conservative outlet that doesn't toe the Republican line.
The system that failed is well understood. Have the mechanisms in the organisation that allowed for such a failure-prone system to be installed and cleared for production been changed?

That's the opaqueness of all of this that bothers most, yeah, as an engineer I can say with some confidence that this specific problem has been thoroughly dissected and analysed. What about the issues that aren't in the engineering-realm but in the business-realm? Have processes that allowed this failure to happen been fixed? Where was the root cause?
I'm much more concerned by the operator than the aircraft on proven planes. Air France for example -- landing in Syria in a civil war due to a backup plan that prioritised money over safety [0], pilots ignoring stall warning for nearly a minute [1].

The Max does concern me about Boeing planes goign forward, but existing airbus and boeing planes are fine.

[0] https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/air-franc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
> no ability to send/receive messages without being tethered to the phone (to be fair, Signal and WhatsApp also have this problem)

Signal actually has a desktop app. It requires having installed signal on a phone before, and linking the accounts, but it doesn't depend on the phone after that I believe.

As for SMS, it works on pretty much any device and network, with the caveats that it's the first and lowest common denominator messaging service.
Come on, which ones are you talking about FB, Twitter, Netflix, Google, MS, Amazon, Oracle, Intel, AMD, Nvidia and on and on.

How many companies does there have to be for the monopoly record to stop?

Frankly at this stage I'd have to say that word doesn't mean what HN thinks it means.
I've already thought about the idea of making statistics to optimize access time, so I guess this a viable implementation to do it correctly.

That's pretty amazing... I can somehow imagine this tech landing on every modern computer, allowing users to search for anything that is on their machine.
Sure there is. Email is an open standard, enabled by other other open standards. Things like authentication and service location are dictated by implementation. As a user, I can email anyone on the planet and retain those communications. My employer retains some email dating as far back as 1992, in native format.

Chat is almost always a closed loop. There are usually large implementations, and as a user I can only message within one. There are some exceptions to that. Chat always gets kicked around as corporate strategy changes. At work, I’ve probably used a dozen incompatible Microsoft solutions as their strategy meandered around. Jabber was the big attempt to make chat like email, and it failed.

Email still runs the world, despite its many flaws.
The similarity is that you are insuring against a specific event with a lot of caveats. As a silly example, if you insure your house against fire damage and then light it on fire yourself intentionally, you're not getting anything. The insurance policy may not even cover accidental fire damage if it was due to your own negligence, e.g. operating an unsafe fireplace.

Given all these terms and stipulations, it's easy for the insurance company to say the policy doesn't cover the specific event that led to your loss, even if it should. Which is when you have to take them to court. So in the interest of keeping the insurance business an actual legitimate business people trust, you have oversight.
I don't think I need to run arbitrary code to take a dict and make it into an instance of a specific class whose members are that dict, but this may depend on your choice of dynamic language!

Edit: I guess you mean the deserializer is running arbitrary code to import the necessary classes if they are not already imported. I would prefer that it fail in this case. I think it's not too much trouble to ask users who insist on using classes to have them around before instantiating them.
New or used? In the US the realistic floor for a new car is 20k. A few smart cars and such for less, but not anything sold seriously.
I can offer this piece of insider information: Starting your business in the very high-cost-of-living Finland really helps.

(High cost of living means having to pay high fees to couriers and so on, which means it is impossible to do even do if you do not work out the economics properly right from the start, which then gives a huge advantage moving forward.)
Only having skimmed the work, read the following as a somewhat educated guess.

I think one could see this similar to repeated applications of interpolation search. If you are looking for x in a sorted array of n numbers between a and b, then index (x - a) / (b - a) * (n - 1) would be a good guess assuming uniform distribution of the numbers.

But as one can not assume a uniform distribution in general, one does that repeatedly. The first interpolation leads to better interpolation coefficients for the relevant subrange, which may lead to even better interpolation coefficient for an even smaller subrange until one eventually finds what one was looking for.

If there is no structure in the data that can be exploited, this degenerates into a more or less ordinary tree as we one certainly fit a line through two points, but if at some level a larger range of the data can be well approximated with the interpolation function, then it can save space and search time because one can get close to all the values in the range with only one set of interpolation coefficients and only one interpolation.
From what I have read, these networking centric companies have a reputation for noncompetitive pay. Is this true? They otherwise sound like great places to work.
What bothers me most is that Matthew mentioned in that issue that they did the accounts on Oct 29 (perfectly in time for the deadline) and that they plan to publish them. Yet apparently they did neither file them officially nor publish them by now...
That sort of misses the point, for a general non-technical user anyway..
The problem with Quora, as I see it, is the question-answer format lends itself to a restricted form of dialogue which can't really serve the "sense-making" function for society.

Imagine if in the past, journalists could only write about what their readers asked them about. It wouldn't have generated the best result.

We need a system that allows people to put forth their ideas and let them be evaluated by peers. We need the scientific method at scale.
I read that as "only one person who is pushing to remain on Whatsapp, and only one person pushing to leave."
Not yet planned but its definitely something we want to have. we onboard everyone who want to port the code, so I hope someone will come with this idea soon.
Wolt is not really a startup any longer, and it has never had access to really large amounts of money in the past.
Have you looked around you lately? What about the unintended consequences of... all of human technology and civilization? Please, get rid of the mosquitos! I don’t want to have to douse myself in chemicals just to go for a hike or enjoy a weekend of camping.
Lots of people have collections of audio files that they want to upload to the cloud so that they they can stream them using web and mobile apps. This was the case for many people using Google Play Music before it was removed last fall (including myself). I have about 2,000 mp3 files that I've collected over the years that I want to sync to my desktop and phone for playback. Does this help answer your question?
Night during an outage?

A good generator cost 5k or more. I have a 75 kWh battery sitting in my garage. Bummer the tech isn’t right to reverse the flow. My understanding is Tesla don’t have the right part to reverse the AC flow.
Ugly[0] as they are, centipedes are exceptional insect killers. It is worth considering letting the occasional common house centipede just go about its business. If you are seeing a lot of them though that's indicative of a really big problem.

[0] "Ugly" is used here as a stand-in for "fundamentally terrifying to many people"
What's the story for deletion? Is that done through something like merge(record, delete_token) -> delete_token?
At least, for now, I don't think the US will let Taiwan be eaten by China. The US did protect (and to some extent create) Taiwan long before Taiwan had any value.

Taiwan being invaded by China is a signal of the end of US hegemony around the world.
From what I understand Teslas have a front facing radar giving them accurate range measurement forward and they incorporate that in and use nets to do SLAM for other angels where the radar isn't.

But i'm not an expert in this so take it with a grain of salt please :)
I guess investors suffer from FOMO just like the rest of us.
Can't have your cake and eat it too. If you insist on making not-Democrats extinct at the State, County and Municipal level, you should expect follow-through.

YOU voted in single party rule in CA. Frankly I'm amazed at how little they have exercised their monopoly...they have the votes to pass stuff like this by the hour.
First of all, there is no ‘reunite’ because Taiwan has never been united with the PRC. It has been governed by the Republic of China, which predates PRC by many decades, since Japan’s defeat in WWII and subsequent surrender of its colonies. A unification scenario is less likely today than it has ever been before, and grows less likely every year. Millions of Taiwanese outright reject the idea that they are part of China. A diminishing minority of waishengren that evacuated the mainland to Taiwan in 1949 are about the only people who would favor unification.

Nothing wrong with considering that scenario, but as for a national referendum resulting in a peaceful unification? Chances are basically zero.
The Nemty Affiliate Model
I think it's a V shape with your index and middle finger. Palm orientation might matter too - I think the same with the back of the hand facing forward has very different meanings.

There's an emoji of it: (U+270C - in case HN strips it)
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So, it's like a giant "grow only set" shared between as many nodes as you want and sending diffs on the network? I find it difficult to understand the possible applications* and the link with the article in the readme (https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html).

*: I see that it could be used as backbone for an end-to-end encrypted messaging system, but what would it change for me if I were reading a remote API, running a multi-instance web app or parsing CSVs to train ML models on them ?
"National lottery" is after the fix. "Unacceptably high" was before the fix.
I'm sorry, but it's like complaining that Haskell is not a practical language. If you want to do production work, then why not focus on languages that are geared towards that? There are a lot of choices out there...
Same question. Can you give me an example of an indexing scheme that works on non-sortable data? I can’t think of any.
Here you go: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=peace+sign+hand+&t=iphone&iax=imag...
Yup, even before pandemic I saw a lot of Wolt boxes in some cities, although they don't serve where I live.
It's almost like treating staff well is a good thing! The audacity!

Anyway I hope they stay private and don't get shareholders, broadly speaking those are leeches who make the big decisions and earn big money without having to put the work in. They, and capitalist min-maxing, is part of the reason why employees are exploited, underpaid and overworked nowadays.
Of course not, but when has that ever stopped anyone?
Databases. If you want to be able to quickly do a lot of useful operations on large amounts of data, B-trees and their variants (B+ trees) are the way to go. Using a B-tree, you can find an entry, sort and do range queries by key, and inserts and deletes are fast.
Thanks for letting me know, yes it's the same thing.

Source-available sounds accurate, the term is a bit long though and I think it is a more generic term that also covers open-source and paid-source?
Overlooked or Underrated Problems of the Secure Messaging Apps
Thanks for advice!

Finding developers with Blazor focus/experience, seems to have two sides. One is .net developers really want to work on Blazor, and other is that not many have experience. By "choose boring technology" standards, these are both red flags.

However, I wonder if it is more work to implement Vue than Blazor considering my existing stack and that much of app is already developed. Razor pages use the same syntax as Blazor.
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